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...Geisels had moved to La Jolla, near San Diego, and Ted was still itching to make a real movie. (With his lyric gift and Manhattan prominence, I can't figure why he hadn't worked on a Broadway show in the '30s.) He got his chance when producer Stanley Kramer, then the serious young producer of note ("Champion," "The Men," "Death of a Salesman," "High Noon"), signed him to write the script and lyrics for an ambitious musical, "The 5,000 Fingers...
...dream) is to have 500 boys play a piece of his at the world's largest piano. The project was a nightmare for Geisel, too. "Hollywood is not suited for me," he said when it was over, "and I am not suited for it." He rebelled, futilely, when Kramer insisted that a love interest be added to Geisel's. Geisel hated all the compromises of a studio production, the sapping of his vision. He recalled that in the climactic scene, one boy at the 500-player piano vomited, cueing "one after another of the boys to go queasy...
...three members of the Crimson starting front court grabbed just five boards on the defensive end, while the Crusaders’ two-man front court corralled five offensive rebounds. Holy Cross reserve Josh Kramer picked up four by himself, causing additional trouble down...
...smoking in Silk’s car, now cowering in fear of her psychopathic ex-husband, Lester (a grizzled and frightening Ed Harris). Both actors seem hampered by the hefty burdens imposed on their characters, while director Robert Benton—whose previous work includes the multiple Oscar-winner Kramer vs. Kramer—has the impression that gratuitous nudity is a sufficient replacement for any semblance of a coherent plot line...
...Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart) has always attended to the subtlest emotional vectors. He sees that though this film's theme may be racial prejudice, it is really the story of a man deciding, late in life, to love the unknown--what is beyond books, pride, even self. To learn that lesson is to turn a stain into a blessing. --By Richard Corliss